Thread: Help Vitara electricla gremlins?

Originally Posted by scotty

ahhh i miss the days when cars only had few wires to run them.......more of these need to be saved from the wreckers yard tell a youngster you had to do the points and plugs , adjust the timing and rekit the carby and all you would get is "cant you plug in the computer and clear the codes"

simpler times

Apparently that would not have helped me. Thanks all for the suggestions above.

Gremlin has been found and dispatched. During reassembly we managed to catch the wire that goes from the high beam to the spotlight relay behind a sneaky bolt which earthed it. As the headlight switch is after the light technically the switch earths the lights to turn them on- as such the bolt created an earth turning the lights on. It was a lucky catch as it is not in the headlight wiring but the accessory spotlight wiring.....

Car still wont start but that is another story....we are still working out why.